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STEPPING OUT & STEPPING UP: THE LAND-GRANT TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION PROJECT

Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zone & Stepping Up to Our Responsibilities

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First Nations Development Institute Spring 2021 Newsletter

Submitted by Steve Gavazzi on

Map of the United States with text: Dotting the "I" at The Ohio State University

Throughout the nation, for over 150 years, some of America’s finest universities have been instilling education, facilitating research, and providing direct services to their communities, all on lands that were stolen from Native tribes and peoples. Now, universities are beginning to recognize their land’s original inhabitants, acknowledge the truth of their histories, and explore ways in which reparations with Native people can be made. In a new project toward truth and reconciliation, First Nations is working with leaders at The Ohio State University to examine the dispossession of tribal lands at this land-grant university and the effects it has had on the economic, educational, and health disparities of Ohio’s Native peoples.

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